Latest Features on Classic Rock
How Ozzy Osbourne made Mama, I'm Coming Home - with a stunning assist from Lemmy
There wasn't a dry eye in the house the final time he played this classic live
Here's every metal album that's ever gone to number one in the UK
From Iron Maiden to Sleep Token, here's every single time metal topped the album charts in the UK
An audience with Spinal Tap legend David St. Hubbins
Spinal Tap singer/guitarist David St. Hubbins on beefing with Metallica, hanging with Ronnie James Dio and why they could never be Slipknot
"I've heard it's responsible for a whole generation being conceived": The epic story of rock's ultimate aphrodisiac anthem
"I did feel like making love at the time... that happened a lot" - Paul Rodgers
After 50 years, 38 Special have learned a thing or two about keeping a band together
38 Special were too big at home in the US to return to the UK during the past 40 years, but new album Milestone might bring them back
How a duo who never intended to be a real band had a 1980 hit that changed prog for ever
When an experimental project escaped from the studio in 1980, no one could have predicted the consequences for both prog and pop music – and not everyone was happy about it
"Hello, cheeky!" How MTV made Whitesnake into megastars
As MTV announces it will no longer play music videos in the UK and Europe, we look back at the moment it helped reinvent Whitesnake
How an iconic Alice In Chains song brought Jerry Cantrell closer to his estranged dad
Rooster by Alice In Chains was Jerry Cantrell’s tribute to his Vietnam veteran dad, and it showed a different kind of dark side to the band
How Ozzy Osbourne predicted the future and saved Motörhead's Heavy Metal Holocaust
When Motörhead supported Ozzy Osbourne on his first American arena tour, it was the start of a beautiful friendship
The story of the career-defining song with a lyric scribbled on a takeaway bag while stoned
Two albums into his career, Lenny Kravitz was still taking the train to the studio. Then came the night that changed his life forever
Introducing Castle Rat, your new favourite medieval-themed doom-rocking New Yorkers
All hail The Rat Queen!
The secret to making King Crimson work by Peter Giles, who helped make it happen
He recalls The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles Giles & Fripp and the Brondesbury Tapes to 21st Century Schizoid Band, making music with his wife and winning athletics medals at 80
How big a Ghost fan are you? Take our devilishly hard Ghost quiz to find out!
Think you know your Papa IIs from your Papa IVs? Take our special Ghost quiz to see how you measure up
“It’s light-hearted, sexually ambiguous – I love it!” Justin Hawkins on the 10 Queen songs you might've missed
Cat suits, mega-mullets and time travel: The Darkness frontman on Queen’s deepest cuts
The beer-soaked, chart-topping anthem that saved a career and became an all-time classic
It was also the beginning of the end
Simple ideas and happy accidents took a Dutch band to the pinnacle of prog. And yodelling.
Master craftsmen’s 1971 release was a unique fusion of ingenuity, passion and febrile chemistry – plus some tension – and they never looked back
A song for a Lego advert helped a science-fiction concept album enjoy 50 years of success
1978 single was the only one of four to enter the top 10, featuring the magic of one of prog’s most distinctive voices
